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Macro Monday - New Technology - 4TB G-Tech Hard Drive. One of the hard drives used to store all my music, films and photo's. The drive light on the front flashes when it's reading or writing to disk illuminating the inside. Light painted the G on the front with a torch during the second exposure, whilst holing a bit of blue glass over the the light to stop the hight lights blowing out too much.
I was at the astoundingly massive San Jose MLK library last weekend doing some research and looking at the various thesis publications on the shelves. It was interesting looking at SJSU master's thesis books that were printed 50 years ago. This was back when San Jose was known agriculturally as "The valley of the heart's delight" long before it became "Silicon Valley".
Once I found the CompSci and EE sections, I started scanning book titles. I did not recognize the word used in this book's title, so I pulled it out to investigate. I was quite surprised to find that 7/8ths of the pages were chopped out to make room for a square pocket on the back cover. Oh dear, that's not what I think that is, is it?!?! Reading the introduction on the book's few pages revealed the author simply stating "Please insert this disk into your computer and you can read all of the project research via hypertext linked documents." +10 points on using an open non-proprietary documentation standard, however epic fail due to data rot.
So, a show of hands, how many of you remember these cursed zip disks. I'd be especially curious to know if anyone still has functional hardware (used in the past year or two) that could actually read this media?
It's sad that I was able to read with ease thesis books 50 years old, but a thesis that's just over 10 years old is completely unreadable… [shrug and shake head]
We shot our US project on a digital camera so that meant the media was also digital. We ended up carrying 4 x large hard drives across the states. These trusty Yellow Pelican cases helped the drives weather the storm of naked girls, clubs, booze and occasional shooting. The only downside was taking them through US customs as the 4 x yellow cases looked a little too much like a Die Hard villains travel luggage.
My photo gear is being charged in my car by means of an inverter plugged into a 12-volt outlet. Shown here are two digital storage devices and a charger for my camera batteries (I have two batteries). The plastic box is my photo maintenance container. It holds the storage devices, the battery charger, sensor-cleaning materials, instruction booklets, and an extension cord (useful in motels). The Epson P-2000 is rated at 40 gigabytes but the embedded software means the disk has about 38 gigabytes available. The Digital Foci "Photo Safe" holds 100 gigabytes. The Epson device allows me to look at images I have downloaded; the other device does not.
On road trips I shoot as many as 300 scenes per day (bracketing creates 900 images per day). Shooting that many pictures with slide film was unthinkable. Images get recorded on three SD memory cards: two rated at 2 gigabytes and one rated at 1 gigabyte. At the end of the day I download the images to the digital storage devices.
Until recently I was content to use an Epson P-2000 (40 gigabytes) as my sole image repository. On this trip I also took the "Photo Safe." It's a good thing I did, because I needed the extra room for holding photos taken by Gary, my trip companion.
Charging off of the car's battery does not drain it, even with two or three items being charged simultaneouly. But I do the charging as much as possible when the motor is running. Not pictured is the charger for my cellular phone. Electricity is wonderful.
UPDATE
The system above was replaced with a notebook computer and an external hard drive. On trips the things that need charging are my camera batteries, my iPhone, and the notebook computer.
I have a PCMCIA card reader, but it's slow :-(
I like to have muliple compact flash cards with different sizes instead a big one.
Vertical image of 3 hard disk drives on a black reflective surface with a blue background.
©2011 Jose Gil. All rights reserved. My permission is required for any use of this image.
After much struggling, I was able to get the hard drive out of the plastic packaging. It has CD with drivers and a manual. I didn't really need the CD because I have Windows XP. It's plug and play.
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
New toys, I mean, equipment for phase 3 of our project is here! We are ready to digitize more historic Vermont newspapers.
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
exhibition opening, 12 April, 2018
Filodrammatica Gallery
Rijeka, Korzo 28
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
This thing is awesome. You pop you camera card in the side, hit the button and it sucks up your pictures. I got this 40 Gb model. There was also an 80.
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